SummerFest 2013

SummerFest continues its tradition of presenting works by contemporary composers, with world premieres by two Pulitzer Prize-winning American composers: Steven Stucky and John Harbison. The program also features a seminal work by Hungarian composer Bela Bartok, the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, and Antonin Dvorak’s popular Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor.

Composed for violinist Cho-Liang Lin, Steven Stuck’s Sonata for Violin & Piano adapts the traditional form with its study in contrasts for a contemporary idiom, creating a musical narrative that is classical in construction yet by turns playful, forceful and almost improvisatory.

John Harbison’s Crossroads is a song cycle based upon Louise Glück’s A Village Life, a collection of poems about community. The piece features soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano and oboist Peggy Pearson with the Linden String Quartet.